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Riding into the ferry terminal carpark at Haines, Alaska, it’s a big carpark and I ride down the No. 2 lane as I’d been told, already a lot of cars and 8 bikes there, suddenly a car driving down lane 1 turns in front of me, I veer right, evasive action mode, to try and get around but he’s turning too fast and I smash into his right front corner, wobble on a metre or two and crash out!!
ENJOY THE TRIP?….COME BACK IN THE FALL!
Bill Shum2006-08-21 17:00:55
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and they are narrow, very tricky bit of navigating and magic to be just gliding thru’, and still this fabulous, fantastical everlasting daylight...
Someone spots a moose on the shore (tick) Most of the cruise is Amazing Alaskan Inner Passage Panoramathru’ narrow passageways, you could throw a stone to either bank, squillions of little islands, what's mainland, what's an island, can't tell, but tres isolated... between big rugged snowcapped mountains, mostly no people at all out here, glaciers sluggishly winding down valleys to the sea, off the port side, a whale, humpback, blowing out, rolling over (tick), orcas (tick) in fact over the days, many whales about.
In the foreground, before the snow caps, the rolling mountains appear furry, or rather firry, as they are covered in fir trees...man there's a lot of timber out there, someone told me all Alaskan citizens are allowed some number of some dimension of lumber each year....5 cubits?...I forget, but it was a substantial amount.
We stop at Katchikan (?) and the sky is full of float planes, always 5 or 6 in the air, coming and going like a taxi service, which it is!…
All really nice people on board, many coming up and asking how I am as they had seen the crash on Saturday. Meal times eagerly awaited, bit exy but good tucker…and always friendly smiling people to talk with…and of course a nice little bar where I spend the afternoons,
Amazing Alaskan Inner Passage Panoramathen a siesta, then a little more…
An announcement over the PA...the owner of a silver BMW 1150 has to report to the purser...I drag on the boots and go down...only to find the 3 other silver BMW owners...and the other BMW riders have turned up as well in support?..we all crack up...turns out one of the others had a gas container on the bike and they didn't like it.....back up on the sundeck a total stranger (car driver) came over to check
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